£10.74
Canopy
Poems
Book Overview
A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from a contemporary master — a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment.
About the Author
Los Angeles Review of Books Linda Gregerson's long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem.
Themes and Questions
In a world where every breath I take is luck. From the Syrian refugee and ecological crises, to police brutality and COVID, to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, the poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn strangers?
Content and Significance
The magnificent poems in Canopy catalogue and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.
